Feb 22, 2008 11:21 AM

I could do with some guidance or pointers on the best way to configure alerts based on SNMP traps. Im new to Zenoss, and am trying things out. At the moment i am doing everything under the admin login.I have setup Zenoss to receive traps from a HP procurve switch. This is working. I can see one of the traps (LINK_DOWN) and would like to set up email alerts everytime this trap is received.I understand about creating an alert and a schedule, but can not see a way to tie the alert to the SNMP trap. Could someone please post a quick checklist of the steps needed to do this or point me to some information to help?I have the manual in front of me, but cant see a way to this?Any help would be gratefully received...

ESBI is the edge switchDSPBA is the distribution switch which sees the edge switch go down and sends a trapI have loaded several MIBS, but cant see the one i want for this - I have over 100 hp procurve mibs - is there a way to load all of them, or do they have to be loaded one at a time?

Why the difference, I was expecting an incremented count to appear for these alerts in the event console? I dont understand why 'current' alerts appear as history?My main question is how do I set up an email alert for the class /Net/link so that the moment a snmp LinkDown trap appears, I get an email?

I have set up a rule under alerting rules based on the /net/link class to send an email everytime a trap comes in I should get a mail. It is enabled, but so far no luck.

I think you may be over-engineering this for just a switch - you should be able to setup a simple alerting rule that sends an email if zenoss sees an event >=, say, error on any device in /network/switch - the traps are abviously understood, and link_down, is (IIRC) an error level event. At the very least, I'd recommend starting this way and refining from there. I can't answer the rest of your questions.